[GNC] Edit Cut and Copy greyed out

[Adrien Monteleone]

Duplicate is useful when you want to repeat a particular transaction that isn’t the last one with the same description.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Dec 15, 2019 w51d349, at 12:37 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> On 12/15/19 9:12 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>> Op zondag 15 december 2019 17:42:07 CET schreef Tony Vanson:
>>> Thanks Geert,
>>> My understanding now is that 3.7 will not *Copy* or *Cut* a complete
>>> transaction line whereas previous versions did.
>> No version that I know of did this via Edit->Copy and Edit->Paste. There are 
>> separated commands under the transaction menu for this, both in old and new 
>> versions of gnucash. I have just reinstalled version 2.6.21 to reverify this. 
>> It shows the exact same behavior as gnucash 3.7.
>> 
>>> A plus I got out of this is that *Duplicate* is a more efficient method for
>>> my needs.
> 
> You may not even need that!  Just enter a date and start entering the
> Description just as it was previously.  GnC should populate the rest of
> the description for you.  If you hit tab/enter, it should populate all
> the splits from the previous transaction.  Feel free to edit any
> particular set of splits if the actual values have changed slightly (so
> far my wife hasn't spent the same amount at Winco but the splits all
> have the same basic accounts that she hits each time).  Just clean up
> anything that is amiss and you are done.  No copy/paste.  No Duplicate
> activity.  Very little typing (about the same as copy/paste or clicking
> on Duplicate) and its all in the register.